RetroRGB Interview: Christof aka chriz2600
RetroRGB8 Elo 2018

RetroRGB Interview: Christof aka chriz2600

Here's an interview with the Dreamcast HDMI creator, chriz2600. We talk about his FPGA solution, dual analog and HDMI outputs up to 1080p and other idea's he's been working on. It's also available as a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/50GQFdghGeE

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Here's links to everything we discussed:

Dreamcast HDMI Project:Firmware: https://github.com/chriz2600/DreamcastHDMIHardware: https://github.com/citrus3000psi/DCHDMI-Hardware

DE10 Nano FPGA Kit: https://amzn.to/2NBh4JR

JBC Soldering Station: https://www.welectron.com/JBC-BT-2BWA-Soldering-Station

Sn63/Pb37 is usually eutectic: e.g. https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/chip-quik-inc/SMDSW.020-4OZ/SMDSW.0204OZ-ND/2177060

The third paragraph of the wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder) explains eutectic vs non-eutectic much better than me :)

Link to Dan’s shop: http://shop.dansprojects.com/

A note from Christof: "Two things, I forgot during the interview:

1. Because of the "github acquired by microsoft” situation, I wanted to address, that it’s really easy in git, to push to more than one repository at the same time (git was designed to be distributed). E.g. https://github.com/chriz2600/DreamcastHDMI is also available on https://gitlab.com/chriz2600/DreamcastHDMI

2. DreamcastHDMI and the FirmwareManager (WiFi upgrade tool) are auto build, and automatically deployed to the firmware website using gitlab-ci.You can see the builds on the gitlab website, one example: https://gitlab.com/chriz2600/FirmwareManager/-/jobs/81965104 "

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